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Prospective Tech students could see a stricter criteria for HOPE scholarship eligibility.
3.0 GPA, 21 ACT score may both be required for future HOPE scholars By JONATHAN KAULAY Beat Reporter
A bill that restricts eligibility for the HOPE scholarship is working its way through the Tennessee General Assembly. Currently, incoming students need to maintain a 3.0 high school grade point average or have a minimum ACT score of 21 to qualify for the HOPE Scholarship. If the bill passes, students would have to satisfy both of these requirements in order to be eligible for HOPE. “In 2007, 2008 we discovered we were spending more than we were taking in,” Sen. Dolores Gresham, Senate Education Committee chairman, said. “We watched it and discovered this trend continued year after year.” According to a study done by the Senate Lottery Stabilization Task Force, middle-income and African American students would be disproportionately affected. African American students could see an 18 percent drop in eligibility or decrease in the amount awarded. Low income families that make $36,000 or less a year would see a 22 percent decrease, and middle-income families that make $36,000 to $72,000 a year would see a 35 percent decrease according to the study. Despite the potential impacts and current opposition, Gresham said she stands by the controversial bill.
“We have to get away from spending more than we are taking in, because we do not want this program to ever go in the hole,” Gresham said. Adriane King, Tech’s assistant director of Financial Aid, points out that if the bill is passed it will have a direct impact on Tech. “I think when you do the math, it’s about 10 percent will be affected here at Tech,” King says. “That’s roughly 500 students.” State law already requires at least $50 million remain in the reserve at all times to prevent HOPE from costing the state money. “Last year I think there was a problem because the lottery was not generating much revenue and we neared that $50 million mark,” King said. “This year there doesn’t seem to be that problem at all.” A report from state lottery officials shows the lottery has set record gross sales over the last few months. Gresham says that is still not enough. “This $10 million improvement does not cover the entire deficit,” Gresham said. “If they could maintain that kind of success we would not need these new changes. If the Lottery Corporation could sustain that kind of success we would repeal it in 2015.” Gresham recently introduced an amendment that would have the bill repealed if The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation maintains its current success. If passed, the new HOPE eligibility requirements would go into effect in 2015.
Author and awardwinning journalist Andrea Moore-Emmett presents at 7 p.m., March 27 in Derryberry Moore-Emmett Auditorium. Moore-Emmett is the author of “God’s Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped,” as well as several articles on polygamy, and was the researcher for A&E’s documentary, “Inside Polygamy,” which aired on BBC. She will present on these topics and will discuss the history of
polygamy in America. Moore-Emmett has served as Utah National Organization for Women president and on a Salt Lake City mayor’s commission. She has received five awards from the Utah Headliner’s Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, including the Don Baker Investigative Journalism Award. She has also received a Women in Communications Leading Changes Award and the Leadership Council on Abuse and Interpersonal Violence and the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma 2008 Award for Distinguished Service and Excellence in Journalism. The event is free and open to the public, no tickets necessary, and is co-sponsored by Center Stage and Tech’s Women’s Center.
Crawford residents, Mark Burnett to Paint the Night Away Thursday By SHELBY MCDONALD Beat Reporter Crawford residents and Mark Burnett will paint the night away at 7 p.m. March 29 on the bottom floor of Crawford Hall. Paint the Night Away is a new art program for Crawford residents. The program is similar to places like Cookeville’s Art Mill. Burnett, Student Affairs vice president, will be leading the residents in drawing and painting a sketch. “Crawford residents are really excited to have this opportunity to not only learn to paint but to learn from Mark Burnett,” Kristen Caldwell, Crawford residential assistant and program coordinator, said.
Each resident will be given all of the materials to paint and will be able to keep her canvas. Drinks will be provided during the event. The event is first-come-firstserved to create an intimate setting. Each resident can find an RSVP card on her door and the first 25 residences to respond will be able to attend the event. “Girls are going to be really excited about this program and many will be crushed if they aren’t in the first 25 to respond,” Loren Meledandri, Crawford RA, said. Due to the amount of residents intersted, there will be a waiting list for another art program at a later date.
Engineers develop technology to find missing pilot By MEGAN SEVERE Beat Reporter
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motely piloted vehicle. Hoy said the bungee cords were found to be the best way to launch the unmanned plane by itself and have the correct speed range for takeoff. The recovery system is a large net that catches the plane after it’s launched. The net is used to recover the plane without damage in a short landing space. As a radio-controlled device, Hoy said the plane can be steered by the ground-based “pilot” into the approximate center of the net. “This project has great potential to help in future search and rescue missions at an affordable cost,” Hoy said. “The ultimate goal is to help out other search and rescue operations.”
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Like most of you, I spend an unhealthy amount of time on Facebook. It’s the king of social media. Facebook has helped me to stay in touch with old friends, keep track of birthdays and has even helped me track down family members that I had never met. But I think we all know that there are some Facebook faux pas. With the site becoming such a big part of our popular culture, it’s no surprise that when people list their pet peeves there’s usually at least one connected to Facebook. One of the most obvious is game requests. Here’s a tip for you: if you’ve been sending Farmville requests to the same person for over a month and they haven’t responded, then they don’t want to play Farmville. While you’re at it, go ahead and assume that they don’t care about Mafia Wars or any of the other games. Another big pet peeve is the friend who uses his or her status updates as permanent soapboxes to preach and lecture from. I know that coming from the editorial content editor that this is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black, but you aren’t receiving email or text updates every time one of my articles is published. If
you want to read my opinion then you can. If you don’t, then no one is throwing a newspaper in your face. But if you’re the person making hourly status updates on why liberals, republicans, Christians, atheists, etc. are smart and everyone else is stupid or corrupt, then all you’re doing is making your friends consider hiding your updates. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion and generally your friends are interested in what you believe in. It’s fine if you feel strongly about a subject and mention it on Facebook. But no one wants to be reminded of where you stand via politically charged memes every hour of every day. Another annoying problem on Facebook is friendship requests. Some people want as many friends as possible. Others want to limit the people they friend for one reason or another. If you friend request someone that you met once at a party and they decline, don’t send them a whiny message asking for an explanation. Don’t keep trying to friend request them over and over. Just let it go and move on. Facebook is not your diary and your Facebook friends are not your group therapy. There’s a limit to how much
people will be sympathetic to sad status updates. There should be a rule stating that you only get to make an update about your rocky love life once every few weeks. Go ahead and trash your cheating boyfriend and bask in the warm glow of your friends commenting and offering to beat him up for you. But after that, you need to log off and go to a bar with a few close friends if you want to keep talking about it. Your old high school classmates don’t care if you still tear up every time you here Adele on the radio. Last but not least, I’d like to address those of you that are still participating in Facebook poking. Stop it right now. Throwing sheep was a little funny when it was popular, but it had the decency to disappear once it got annoying. For the most part, everyone has stopped Facebook poking. But there are still a few people that insist on keeping the tradition alive. They’re almost always exes or people you haven’t seen since middle school. Virtual poking was creepy when it was popular and it’s only gotten stranger with time. Just let it die. All in all, people try to be considerate on Facebook. Offenders of these faux pas may not even realize that others are getting annoyed. For the sake of our collective sanity, let’s all try to be a little more aware of how we’re using our favorite social media site.
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Never mind that silly presidential campaign, the unrest in Syria, or the controversial health care law being taken up before the Supreme Court next week. We have bigger issues facing our world today, namely the new ABC show “GCB.” Short for “Good Christian Belles,” the new comedy starring Kristin Chenoweth (of “Wicked” fame) has come under attack from religious organizations for its portrayal of a small group of fictitious Christian women. Watchdog groups such as One Million Moms, fresh off their unsuccessful efforts to have Ellen DeGeneres fired from her endorsement deal with JC Penney, have labeled the show “blasphemy at its worst,” while GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has called the program “antiChristian bigotry.” I tend to think that Speaker Gingrich’s time is better spent explaining how he might pay for his creation of a colony on the moon rather than discussing ABC’s primetime lineup, but I digress. “GCB” may not be appointment viewing for me, but as a Christian myself, I do not believe it is the blasphemous propaganda machine that others have suggested it to be. In fact, Chenoweth, the show’s lead actress, has previously recorded a gospel album, was profiled on the Christian Broadcasting Network, and has eloquently discussed and defended her Christian faith with the likes of “The View,” CNN’s Piers Morgan, and TIME Magazine. “GCB,” in its own satirical way, shows the humanity of Christians. As Christians, we worship a perfect God who I be-
lieve must be revered and is beyond any form of parodying, deprecating humor or criticism. But I certainly am not. The Christian subculture, and the hokey bumper stickers and church marquees that sometimes follow, are not sacred things in and of themselves. We should be able to have a laugh or two at our own expense. The Christian community has welcomed the satirical efforts of others in the past. For example, in 2010 speaker, author and blogger Jon Acuff wrote a popular and highly entertaining book entitled “Stuff Christians Like,” which Christian retailers continue to proudly sell. In the book, Acuff lampoons metrosexual worship leaders for their skinny jeans and excessive amounts of hair product, offers tips for avoiding uncomfortable handholding situations in prayer circles and muses about that awkward moment in church when the congregation loses the will to continue clapping during upbeat worship songs. The content of “GCB” is admittedly more provocative, but it offers that same reality check. Additionally, the writing and the characters of the show shine a light on what has unfortunately been a common perception of Christians for some time now. Rather than asking that this program be censored, as One Million Moms and others are doing, perhaps our time is best spent working to address this matter from the inside out by cultivating communities of genuine, kindhearted believers who don’t lend ourselves quite so easily to the caricature seen here. Can I get an amen?
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Weekly Roundup This week’s sports stories at a glance Tennis team hosts two home matches this weekend to begin OVC play Tech welcomes Eastern Kentucky on Saturday and Morehead State on Sunday, with both matches scheduled to begin at noon on the campus tennis courts. Eastern Kentucky was the overwhelming favorite to repeat as OVC champion in 2012 in the annual preseason coach’s poll, while Tech was picked for third place and Morehead State was tabbed to finish fifth. The Golden Eagles have compiled a 2-7 overall record this spring in dual matches, but come into the weekend on the heels of a 4-3 victory at UNC Asheville in its final pre-OVC action. EKU is 12-6 overall and 2-0 in OVC matches, while Morehead State brings an 8-6 record into the weekend, including a 1-1 mark in conference. Three players have compiled the top individual records among the Golden Eagles this year, led by Syrym Abdukhalikov at the No. 1 singles spot. The hard-hitting junior from Kazakhstan is 9-9 in singles play overall this year, his first on the courts for Tech after a transfer from Nebraska. He is 4-5 in dual matches this spring. Justin Kirstein, a senior from South Africa, is next in line for Tech, posting a 7-9 overall singles mark including a 3-5 record in dual play. Vasily Eremeev, a sophomore from Russia, is 6-10 overall in singles action with a 2-7 record in play this spring. Admission to all of Tech’s home matches is free.
Tech Baseball players receive OVC awards After helping Tennessee Tech to a 3-1 record last week, sophomore Zach Stephens and freshman Seth Lucio have swept the Ohio Valley Conference weekly awards. Stephens was named the OVC Player of the Week, while Lucio earned the OVC Pitcher of the Week award. A native of Soddy-Daisy, Stephens finished the week batting .588, which included one home run in each of Tech’s four games. His seven runs and eight RBIs also led the team as he maintained a 1.412 slugging percentage. His two-run home run against Central Michigan Saturday turned out to be the game winner. A freshman out of Locust Grove, Ga., Lucio earned his first career win as he threw 8.1 innings while striking out 11 batters and giving up just five hits. His 11 strikeouts were the most this season by any Tech pitcher in one game. The Golden Eagles begin conference play this weekend as they travel to UT Martin for a three-game series.
Tech track and field begin outdoor season at Vanderbilt this weekend The Tech women’s track & field team gets back to work this weekend, opening the outdoor season Friday and Saturday at the Black & Gold Invitational hosted by Vanderbilt University. A total of 19 teams and nearly 700 athletes will compete in the event. Tech’s possible standout performers include seniors Emily Weinzetl and Traci Jones; juniors Lacy Yslas, Katie Lowery and Madison Borden; and sophomores Brittany Cotto, Kelli Keck and Rebecca Cline.
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Having won four of their last six, Tech baseball visits UT-Martin for three this weekend to begin OVC play. By JUSTIN DUKE Beat Reporter Tech’s baseball team won its three-game series against Central Michigan 2-1 last weekend. The first game of the series was high-scoring: Tech tied the game up at 10-10 in the bottom of the ninth inning when senior shortstop Chad Hayes got a hit and brought the tying run in. However, Central Michigan scored in the eleventh inning, with Tech failing to score again at the bottom of the inning, resulting in a tough loss. “The way the season has been so far, it was a little tough, but we knew we were going to win the next day,� said Andy Williams, Tech sophomore pitcher. “We knew we didn’t play as well as we could have, but we were still in that game the entire time.� Tech bounced back in a big way and won the next two, in what were also high-scoring games. Tech trailed in the bottom of the seventh inning, 4-3, when senior Ben Burgess and sophomore Zach Stephens each got a two-run shot, putting Tech up 7-4. Tech won the second game after two rain delays. Since the batters for Tech and Central Michigan were both hitting well in the final game of the series, both teams knew it
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By LOGAN NICKLESON Web Editor Louisville’s experimental-rock band Wax Fang is scheduled to perform March 29 at the Backdoor Playhouse. The event, organized by student group Underrepresented, New, Creative, Live Experiences, is free to all and will begin at 8 p.m. with a performance by local band The Soviet Space Program. Wax Fang’s bassist, Jake Heustis, agreed to answer a few questions on the telephone in order to provide readers with a personal introduction to the band. Q. How long has Wax Fang been together? A. Around six years. Q. Who are the band’s key musical influences? A. I think that there’s definitely a background in classic rock—‘60s and ‘70s. And we’re products of the ‘90s. So you can’t help bands like Nirvana and Sonic Youth sliding in there. I would say there are some experimental composers like John Cage. And then I think Brian Eno is also very inspirational as well. We
Q. The last official Wax Fang release was in 2010. What has the band been doing for two years? A. We were writing and demoing a lot. We did go over to England and do a three-week tour there. We’ve gone down to a river house that’s about an hour or so out of town and cut a few series of demos there just to get away and concentrate a little bit. I’d say that’s where the EP that’s getting ready to come out was birthed, to a degree. Q. How do you feel about the current state of the music industry and the shift to digital media? A. It’s interesting. It’s definitely made it more difficult, I think, for bands. Ten or 15 years ago, labels were much more willing to put out a little bit of money and support bands that didn’t necessarily have any sort of guarantee and just seemed interesting. It’s a shame to a degree. But I think, at the same time, it’s been going on for long enough now that people are adjusting. The industry’s adjusting,
trying to figure out what battles to pick. I’ve seen and felt for a while that vinyl was going to make a nice comeback. That’s really great because if you are someone who does [care] about having the actual physical copy of the record, buying vinyl’s great. They still give you the MP3 download and then you can have it on your mobile device. So you have the better of all formats, I would say. I feel like that’s definitely not going to go anywhere.
give people a reason to want to buy it and give them a reason to come out and see you live. Maybe, with all the excitement in the air, they’ll buy an actual physical copy of the record or a t-shirt or something. At the same time, people can get exposed to music very easily and quickly. It’s at that point where you just have to accept it.
Q. What’s your stance on the issue of pirated music?
A. We’ve got the EP coming out at the end of the summer. We’re playing a few shows here at the end of March, and then we’ve got the Forecastle Festival here in Louisville that’s definitely grown over the years. That’s going to be a lot of fun. We’ll definitely be playing some shows when this EP comes out. And there will be more to come after that.
A. I think it’s a losing battle at this point. I think you just have to accept it. Ultimately, it’s always been the goal and the most satisfying aspect of [making music] to have people hear the music. That’s what you want ultimately, because that’s what it’s about. But, in order for bands to be able to do what they do and do it well, they’ve got to get the support financially, mainly so they’ll have time. It’s just a losing battle. People are going to get it however they’re going to get it. You just have to look for more creative ways to
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Q. Is there anything you would like to say to your potential audience at next week’s show? A. I think we could all have a real good southern time together.
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“21 Jump Street” is a poor attempt at remaking the popular ‘80s TV series into a humorous, modern action comedy. Former high school loner Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and once popular athlete Jenko (Channing Tatum) decide to leave their high school lives behind and join the police force. After helping one another pass police academy, they are sent out on the town for park control. The team fails to make a successful first arrest, and this forces them to become part of the undercover Jump Street unit. Schmidt and Jenko are sent into a high school, posed as brothers, to investigate a dangerous new drug that has invaded the school. With their identities swapped, Schmidt is now the cool kid while Jenko is the nerd. The team has to track down the dealers and suppliers, but they are faced with the angst filled trials and tribulations of high school all over again. Love interests and being cool prove to be major hurdles the two must overcome to bring down the drug ring and the dealers involved. Crude, immature humor is the movie’s only way of obtaining laughs.
Each joke is one that has been recycled from movies like “Superbad” and “The Hangover,” that have all been heard time and time again. A love interest between Schmidt, who is 25, and Brie (Molly Tracey), who is underage, only added to the distastefulness of the action comedy. The film’s only savior is Tatum’s performance. His usual role of macho warrior or macho romantic man is completely forgotten as Tatum’s transformation into the popular-guy-turnednerd proves that comedy is one of his strong suits. His level of comfort is visible in his performance. A cameo from Johnny Depp, who played in the TV series, comes at a time when it is least expected. James Franco’s younger brother, Dave Franco, has the small role of playing the cool, environmentalist drug dealer. “21 Jump Street” is an action comedy that is trying too hard and relying too much on dirty jokes that have been told too many times to count. It is rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence.
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